Friday, October 25, 2013

Who is the Emperor? What is The Emperor?It's the question on everyone's lips. Or at least the evil masterminds of crime known as Continent-Eight.

The Emperor is the central figure in a series of underground pulp magazine novels Deerstalker Editions is reprinting written by Charles Lee Jackson II and featuring the exploits of The
Emperor, a debonair 1960s adventurer with a team of agents who help him
out on his case.

A bit of Doc Savage, a bit of James Bond and a dash of The Saint, The Emperor will face many perils and the world's deadliest villains during his career, but none as dangerous as those of Continent-Eight, the dread Executive of Crime.

Who is Continent-Eight? Next you will be asking, Who is Varan Haruchi, or the Gila, or Victoria Poten, or Warhead, or Madame von Teufel.

Maybe you should read what follows. The first draft of our Pocket Guide to Charles Lee Jackson's II's Emerorverse - and then read for yourself the underground pulp action sensation – first time ever in book form!

Are you a fan of Jason Bourne and Cotton Malone? Of “Maverick” and
“The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”? Of Modesty Blaise and Catwoman? Of Spiderman and Green Lantern? Of Doc Savage or the Spider?
Then prepare to enter a world of adventure and danger, of a hero
unequaled since the days of the movie serial, of the comic book, and of the pulp magazine - a world of memorable characters,
good and evil. Welcome to the Emperorverse! For over four decades, in dozens of privately published comic books
and pulp magazines, Charles Lee Jackson II has produced a unique body of
work set in what his fans hail as the "Emperorverse". Its central
figure is The Emperor, a 1960s adventurer and crusader for good whose secret identity is the harassed
head of a minor Hollywood movie studio. The Emperor is smart, swift,
capable of amazing feats, all but indestructible, well-dressed, able to
charm beautiful women with a single smile. He leads the fight for law
and justice against all odds.
In his war against evil, The Emperor is aided by as memorable a
group of allies in crime-busting as Doc Savage's fabled companions. His
supporting cast includes Bill Mills, musician, stuntman, and adventurer
who joined The Emperor to make motion pictures and stayed to fight
crime; Max Decker, Federal Intelligence agent who met The Emperor in the
field and worked for many years as a crime-fighter while masquerading
as a criminal gang-leader, the Gila; the amazing Shanghai Lil,
red-headed woman as skilled with a blade as her wits. Plus a host of
costumed heroines and heroes, super and otherwise, among them Shooting
Star, Solara, Nemesis, Cat's-Eye, Fireball, and the robot Titan.

Opposing him is Continent-Eight, the international Executive of
Crime and its creator, Varan Haruchi, AKA The Black Dragon, whose
exposure to arcane experimental chemicals has resulted in his long-lived
youthful appearance. The Emperor also encounters a host of other
evil-doers in his war against crime and destruction: Dr. Yalta, doctor
and dentist once recruited by US intelligence for his resemblance to
warlord Adolf Hitler, kept young by the same accident, who now
supervises medical and scientific crimes for Continent-Eight. Maskman, a
mysterious helmeted figure, whose true identity is unknown even to his
partners in crime. Victoria Poten, The Jade Dragon, third generation
Eurasian crime boss whose personal goals of crime often place her at
odds with her partners. Horst Sterling Rosefeld, the mysterious and
powerful leader of the Church of Nihilism, dedicated to the destruction
of the human race, and ruthless enough to accomplish it. And a rogue's
gallery of sinister figures, notable among them Johnny Rainbow, the
Steel Skull, Xavier Xavier AKA Dr. Double X, the Eye, Alain Sarnov, the
Dragon, Warhead, and Madame von Teufel.
They are all part of the Emperorverse, an incredible assembly of
international spies, space aliens, mad scientists, colorful villains,
costumed heroes, secret agents, spacemen, and even the cowboys of
yesteryear, all engaged in the wildest and wooliest adventures you’ve
ever read.
It's an amazing and unequaled creative tapestry, woven into a complex, interrelated web that snares the imagination. Brought to you by its creator, Charles Lee Jackson II, and Deerstalker Editions.

If you are a fan of David Leadbetter, James Rollins, Lester Dent, Leslie Charteris and/or Maxwell Grant, you won't want to miss The Emperor books.